Re: apt-listchanges: appropriate heuristic for ignoring sub-packages with symlinked /usr/share/doc directories

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Subject: Re: apt-listchanges: appropriate heuristic for ignoring sub-packages with symlinked /usr/share/doc directories
From: Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 15:18:30 +0900
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Hi,

On 10/10/23 06:24, Jonathan Kamens wrote:

  * binary package name different from source name
  * deb contains no changelog or NEWS files in /usr/share/doc
  * creates a symlink in /usr/share/doc with the binary package name as
    its name, pointing at another directory in /usr/share/doc

I'd go an easier way: if the changelog is a symlink, its target is thechangelog to use, so the same changelog (with the same file name) willbe used by multiple packages, and all that's left is to deduplicate thislist.


   Simon

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